I am excited to present an artist lecture that combines both typical and performative elements to best communicate my practice within the scope of the history of Black performance. This lecture highlights my inspirations and ancestors, including Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, David Hammonds, Senga Nengudi, Pope.L, bell hooks, Honey Pot Performance and so on. We will take a journey from 15th century america and europe, exemplifying effects of the gaze on the
“Black body”, all the way to the nuances and possibilities represented within modern and contemporary Afro-Futurist practices and Black performance art. I will explore how ideas and elements such as imagination, quantum physics, survival apparatus, Love ethic etc., all are essential to Black survival, resistance, restoration and expression.